abutment

Example Sentences

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“When you’re plowing the road you need to know where the bridge abutment is and where the expansion joints are so you don’t hook that with a plow,” LaBoe said.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 10, 2021

In a fatal crash in Mountain View, Calif., in 2018, a Tesla running on Autopilot drove head-on into a concrete abutment.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2021

Sunday when it left the road and struck the abutment, Warwick police said in a statement.

From Washington Times • Oct. 26, 2020

All eight had been on a 37-foot boat at the mouth of the Patapsco River when the boat struck the abutment, shearing off a piece of the bow above the waterline.

From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2015

Far down the course, his assigned lane was going to carry the Husky Clipper under the railroad bridge right at the point where water swirled around behind an abutment and flowed back upriver.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown